The Beatles (“The White Album”)
The Beatles (“The White Album”)
November 22, 1968
Apple
Rating: 5 / 5
The Music Rag One Sentence Review: The perfect answer to the over-the-top near-ridiculous-at-times-ness of Sgt. Pepper’s, no other album covers as much ground as the Fab Four’s eponymous 1968 breakthrough, not just covering every genre from rock (“Birthday”) to music hall (“Honey Pie”), campy sing-alongs (“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”) to proto-metal (“Helter Skelter”) but covering every mood imaginable as well, from social activism (“Revolution”) to utter nonsense (“I’m So Tired”), simple devotion (“I WIll”) to unbridled lust (“Why Don’t We Do It In The Road”); that The Beatles manages to coalesce into a perfect blend of, well, everything, is a small miracle considering that the group was being actively torn apart during its creation.
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